Scavenger (#184)

Big Finish Main Range

I found this story more confusing than most with the action at
times. Maybe that was deliberate but it was actually a bit distracting. The 6th
Doctor is busy doing his thing, taking over consoles and moving satellites
around. Flip is working with Jhoti, an Indian astronaut, trying to avoid dying
in space. But the real threat is Scavenger, an alien probe that is looking to
scavenge Earth technology.

Scavenger arrives on Earth hundreds of years ago then shuts
down because technology isn’t advanced enough. Why not just move on? Why bother
waiting for technology to move forward? It sits in orbit for 400 years. At that
point, the planet where it came from would have even more advanced technology
and the current Earth technology would be quaint old junk by then. Seems a bit
pointless. So the basis for this story doesn’t make much sense. The human
portions are good but the alien space debris angle just doesn’t really work for
me.